During class, Lu Yiming's cell phone was turned off, and he would not turn it on until after class.

Turns out there were dozens of missed calls.

Lu Yiming suddenly felt ashamed, fearing that there might be an emergency at the company, so he quickly dialed the number.

"Manager Lei, was it you who called me just now? Is there something urgent?"

Over there, Lei Peilin almost cried when he received Lu Yiming's call.

"Mr. Lu, you finally returned my call."

Upon hearing Lei Peilin's urgent tone, Lu Yiming had a bad feeling in his heart: "What happened?"

He had told Lei Peilin before that he could only call at six o'clock in the afternoon. Now that Lei Peilin had made so many calls during class, there must be something very important.

Lei Peilin told Lu Yiming about Ji Wenze and others making a fuss in Shijinji.

Lu Yiming was speechless after hearing this.

"That's it?"

Seeing that Lu Yiming didn't take it seriously, Lei Peilin had to remind him: "Mr. Lu, don't underestimate the identities of these people. Although they all seem to be a group of old men, they might be retired cadres from some unit or something like that.

Those who have some influence should not be taken lightly."

However, Lu Yiming sneered: "You have so much influence, haven't you heard of people walking away to cool their tea? If these people want to participate, just follow the procedures. If they don't participate, let them go. If they dare to cause trouble, just call them

There’s no need to get used to it when it comes to security.”

"That's...okay."

Lei Peilin has already told Lu Yiming about the relationship between these people, but Lu Yiming still has this attitude. Lei Peilin will naturally not disobey him. In addition, he has been annoyed to death by these bad old men for the past half hour, and now

After receiving instructions from Lu Yiming, of course he would not be polite to these old men.

After hanging up the phone, Lei Peilin came to Ji Wenze and others again, with a serious expression and his voice a little louder than before: "We, Mr. Lu, have something to do. If you have anything to say, you can tell me directly. If you want to participate in the competition, please directly submit your works.

Just leave it to me. If you don't want to participate, you can leave."

He spoke in a very tough manner, which shows that he was really annoyed to death by these people some time ago, and he didn't intend to give them any face.

Xie Zugen cursed: "Your boss at Shijinji is too ignorant, isn't he? Mr. Ji came to visit in person, and this is your attitude?"

He went out with his master today and planned to give him a good meal. In the past, with his background in the Chinese Painting Association, he was always treated well and provided with food, drinks and entertainment.

It turned out that today was a bad day. When I came to Shijinji, I only had a cup of tea!

Lei Peilin said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: "I'm not begging you to come. I still say the same thing, if you are here to compete, just register according to the rules. If you are not here to compete, you can leave now."

Xie Zugen wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Ji Wenze. He took out his painting and said to Lei Peilin: "This is my entry. As the president of Baiyun City Calligraphers and Painters Association, I ask that I

My work will directly enter the finals. How about that? Isn’t this a request too much?”

Although he was very dissatisfied with being so neglected, thinking about the one million bonus, he still endured it and decided to sign up first.

But knowing that the Million Painters talent show was related to the company's transformation plan, Lei Peilin dared not agree, and decisively rejected Ji Wenze's request: "Our competition is open and transparent, and the champion is selected by voting. There is no such thing as directly entering the finals."

.”

"presumptuous!"

Xie Zugen suddenly felt unhappy. He slammed the table, pointed at Lei Peilin's nose and cursed: "Given his ability, won't he be able to win the championship easily? He can condescend to participate in your competition.

That's to give you face, don't be shameless and disrespectful!"

Lei Peilin waved to the little girl at the front desk indifferently, called her in front of him, and randomly ordered in front of everyone: "Xiaoyu, go call the security captain over and ask him to bring people and guys. Come here."

Seeing off guests."

After saying that, he looked at Ji Wenze and others coldly, with indifferent eyes: "We will accept your entries from the preliminary review without any privileges. If you don't participate, you can leave with dignity now. Again

It's unreasonable to make trouble, when the security team comes, they will help you look decent."

Looking at the backs of several people leaving, although Lei Peilin felt very relieved, he also felt a little worried.

After school in the afternoon, the sun sets.

Lei Peilin looked forward to the stars and the moon, but he also looked forward to Lu Yiming.

"Mr. Lu, why are you here so late today?"

Lu Yiming said in a matter-of-fact tone: "I'm on duty."

"..."

There is a high school student boss who is so rude that he can choke people half to death with just one word.

After a day of class, Lu Yiming seemed to have no energy. He yawned, stretched and asked: "Did you select any works that are eye-catching today? Show them to me."

"have."

As he spoke, Lei Peilin took over all the works that had passed the review. There were tens of thousands of emails sent today alone, but not even one percent of them could actually pass the preliminary review.

Lu Yiming picked up one, took a look at it, and then threw it away: "This one won't work."

Immediately afterwards, he picked up the second copy, took a look at it, and threw it away: "This one is not good either, the painting is worse than the last one."

In just a short time, he had thrown away more than a dozen copies.

Lei Peilin was a little hesitant and stood aside and suggested in a low voice: "These have already passed our screening. The elimination rate is still so high when you come here. Will you accidentally eliminate some capable players?"

Lu Yiming was indifferent to this and said: "Luck is also a part of strength. They were eliminated because they did not prepare their works carefully. The attitude of participating in the competition was not correct, so what are you doing? Draw a circle and leave it here to show off your skills? He thought he was Yoshihara

Zhiliang?"

While talking, Lu Yiming picked up a painting in his hand. He took a look at it and suddenly said "Huh".

"Who elected this?"

Lei Peilin took a look and found that it was the comic he had selected before, so he stopped proudly: "Me."

Lu Yiming smiled and praised Lei Peilin: "Okay, Manager Lei, you are quite discerning. This one is obviously not on the same level as the previous ones. This is called painting. It is eye-catching when you look at it. It's not bad."

good."

As he spoke, he put the painting in front of the camera for a close-up.

While he was talking, Lu Yiming had already arrived in front of the office. He said to Lei Peilin: "Continue to screen. No matter what, there is only one millionaire painter. This competition is cruel. This million is not so easy to get. This world has never been

There is no shortcut. Anyone who can take away this million will naturally have the strength and luck to deserve this million."

Lei Peilin nodded and said in a respectful tone: "I understand. By the way, Mr. Lu, I still need to report to you about the calligraphers and painters association today."

"explain."

Lei Peilin took out Ji Wenze's unopened entry, stood aside and whispered: "This is the work of that president. He also asked me to directly enter this work into the finals, but I didn't agree."

"Good guy, you still have a bad temper. Let me see."

Lu Yiming took Ji Wenze's entry, took a look at it, and immediately threw it away with a look of disgust.

"What is this painting? Throw it away."

Lei Peilin quickly persuaded from the side: "He is also the president of the Calligraphers and Painters Association after all. He should have real ability. Without real ability, he can't be the president. Mr. Lu, why don't you take a look again? Maybe it's that

What kind of abstraction? Fauvism? Maybe the artistic conception is profound and we can’t understand it? Isn’t it inappropriate to just let people fail the first trial?”

"artistic conception?"

Lu Yiming sneered: "What bullshit artistic conception? Do you understand this stuff?"

Lei Peilin quickly shook his head.

Lu Yiming sighed: "I don't understand either, so even we can't understand it. Do you expect the little kids who buy our products to understand? The target users of Shijinji are mainly students, especially primary school students and junior high school students.

, so we have to target their preferences.”

Although Lu Yiming has no appreciation of traditional Chinese painting, he can see the merits of some good works and feel the ingenuity of the artist's strokes.

On the contrary, some people who are seeking fame and reputation, from this association or that association, end up creating things that are confusing to people. Can this be called art? Is this worthy of being called art?

The essence of art is the pursuit of beauty, but the premise is that you are beautiful anyway, right?

It's a pity that the so-called cultural and art circles in China are really in shambles now. A small group of people close the door and enjoy themselves, and even rank and suppress others based on their seniority. They are completely divorced from culture and art itself, and even more distant from "aesthetics"

Far from it, it will only deceive laymen with some vague theories.

Lu Yiming has never had a good impression of these people, so he has no intention of giving Ji Wenze face. What kind of bullshit president does he have the nerve to draw such rubbish?

"I understand."

In the final analysis, Shi Jin Ji is a commercial company that pursues profits. If it abandons profits for the sake of identity or concerns, isn't it a fool's errand?

Shopping malls are like battlefields, and the rules of operation are different from those of officialdom, so what the heck with the bird association!

Just when Lei Peilin was about to throw Ji Wenze's work into the trash can, Lu Yiming suddenly thought of something and immediately stopped Lei Peilin: "Wait a minute, since this president wants to enter the finals,

Then I will fulfill his wish and let this thing enter the finals."

"ah?"

Lei Peilin was stunned for a while, completely confused as to what Lu Yiming was thinking: "Why?"

He couldn't help but have doubts in his heart. Could it be that Mr. Lu was still afraid that this certain president would have a high profile and didn't dare to offend him?
To be continued...